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For about a decade, the Los Angeles National Cemetery has been closed to new burials. But the Department of Veterans Affairs recently procured 13 additional acres for a cemetery expansion.
Portland landscape architecture firm Walker Macy is on the project team for the expansion, which is planned to accommodate new interments for the next 90 years.
The cemetery will no longer accept ground burials - except for spouses of those already buried. Instead, all new interments will be in urns of cremated ashes placed in columbarium walls. This design will allow about as many interments in the...